Who worldly good pursue

Who worldly good pursue
As their supreme delight
Will murmur at his followers true
Who all for Jesus slight:
Yet we who Jesus know
The world as nothing deem,
And all the precious things below
Account but dross for Him.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They murmured against her.’—[Mark 14,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 69.
Publishing: Public Domain